Hi,

On 02/09/2011 10:11 PM, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:

Author: urkud
Date: Wed Feb  9 21:11:30 2011
New Revision: 25872
URL: https://svn.nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=25872&sc=1

Log:
vlc-1.1.5, much more dependencies

It seems to me that passing every possible dependency just leads to a lot of bloat. I mean, this...

+, libcaca, pulseaudio, flac, schroedinger, libxml2, librsvg
+, mpeg2dec, udev, gnutls, avahi, libcddb, jackaudio, SDL, SDL_image
+, libmtp, unzip, taglib, libkate, libtiger, libv4l, samba, liboggz
+, libass

seems to add a few dozen megabytes to the closure of vlc. For instance, do avahi and samba provide useful functionality in a video player for most users? Do we need 3 different audio backends (alsa, pulseaudio, jackaudio)? And why do we need SDL?

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